# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380 "2022-09-28T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 160
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3182 "2023-04-04T16:09:50Z")
Hmm, I’m certainly not a teetotaler, but i rarely drink alcohol. I’ll have a couple of glasses of wine for the Seder, but before that … i had a Dixie cup of small beer about a month ago. Excellent fresh small beer, i may add. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3183 "2023-04-04T16:17:38Z")
It’s a rare night that I do not consume alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3184 "2023-04-04T16:28:28Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > It’s a rare night that I do not consume alcohol . Same here. Maybe once or twice per month, on average. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3185 "2023-04-04T16:54:42Z")
I’m not a particularly picky eater. I mean, there are of course _some_ things I don’t like, but more likely than not I’d eat the wrong dish, so that’s what I picked. Also, am I at the restaurant with other people? I would assume they’ve all gotten their meals. It would annoy me to have to sit there and watch them eat their food while I’m waiting for mine, which would increase the likelihood that I would just eat the wrong meal. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3186 "2023-04-04T17:41:17Z")
I voted that I would accept the wrong dish. But I must clarify that it depends on the dish and it depends on my schedule. There are some foods I cannot eat, and others that I really dislike or am phobic about. If I order baby back ribs and end up with a catfish staring me in the face, just no. But if they served me beef ribs instead, I’ll cope. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3187 "2023-04-04T18:00:18Z")
In all likelihood I would just walk out of the restaurant unless I was dining with friends. In which case if the mistaken meal wasn’t totally different from my order I might eat it just to be sociable. More likely I would strong-arm the manager into giving me bar credit equal to what I originally ordered and drink my way through dinner, getting something to eat later at a competent establishment. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3188 "2023-04-04T18:30:52Z")
I would very likely be with somebody else who would probably let me eat some of their food, so I chose to wait 20 minutes, as I am unlikely to like the alternate. Of course, if I was with others, maybe one of them might accept the wrongly delivered meal and I could eat their meal. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3189 "2023-04-04T20:05:32Z")
Chicken wings: I would rank legs and thighs higher than wings, mostly just because they have more meat on them. But since I prefer dark meat over white, I would say wings are better than breasts. Therefore wings are somewhere in the middle. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3190 "2023-04-04T20:46:55Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I did not vote in the wrong dish poll because there are too many other variables. Yeah, I couldn’t vote in that one either. It’s not just an eat now or eat later choice. Too many other variables indeed. I’m not a teetotaler, but I certainly drink a whole lot less than I used to. Maybe once a month at the most? Covid affected me, because I don’t drink much at home, but if I’m at a decent restaurant, I’ll often have a cocktail or wine. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3191 "2023-04-04T21:09:13Z")
Also also also in the too many unknowns category for the “wrong dish” poll. For that matter, I eat out so rarely (cost) that it’s either an event with family where I’m generally not paying, or it’s a place they know me by name. In the first case, I’d be more likely to shut it and finish something if not completely intolerable, just to move on. In the second case, yeah, wouldn’t happen. 🙂 If it was a new place (to me), then, like other customers, I’d be a lot more likely to walk out and never come back - although if they got my wife’s order correct, there might be hesitation if it was something she had been looking forward too. * * * Drinking. I voted 2-3 a week, but it’s more an overall average. I don’t drink beer, wine, or normally shots, but I do like occasionally adding Rum / Brandy / Schnapps to another drink, especially hot ones during the winter months. But even then, it’s relatively infrequent. But if I have friends visiting from out of town, we drink substantially more. So, during the 4 day visit of our friends, I probably had 1-2 drinks a day (and I was the light drinker, since when we went out I was the DD), but many weeks it’s zero drinks. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3192 "2023-04-04T22:02:36Z")
I am incensed that the lawn poll does not include “sheep”. Or psychotic serial murderer/screensaver. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3193 "2023-04-04T22:31:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I am incensed that the lawn poll does not include “sheep”. Sheep aren’t “something else”? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3194 "2023-04-04T22:36:48Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Sheep aren’t “something else”? I include sheep, goats, and javelina as something else. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3195 "2023-04-04T23:21:57Z")
Can I have my classic martini with a twist of lemon instead of olives? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3196 "2023-04-04T23:50:15Z")
What about a choice for those of us who do have grass to mow, don’t insist on voting in every poll, but do want to vote in that particular poll, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3197 "2023-04-05T00:23:48Z")
In @WildaBeast’s “Why don’t you have grass?” poll, I voted that I have some sort of non-grass landscaping - but to say that it “could be grass” is a bit of a stretch. I live in the desert. _Nobody_ has grass around here. I’m surprised so many people would simply walk out of a restaurant if they got the wrong food. As long as the staff is nice about it and they make a reasonable effort to right the wrong (which I think they did in the hypothetical), I can forgive the mistake. Restaurants are run by human beings, after all. Besides, if you go somewhere else you’ll just be waiting even longer to eat. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3198 "2023-04-05T00:28:12Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > but to say that it “could be grass” is a bit of a stretch. I struggled with how to word that, but all I really meant was you have space outside your home that could in some sense be defined as a yard. In other words, the reason you don’t have grass isn’t because you don’t have any space for it outside your home. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3199 "2023-04-05T00:34:08Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > In @WildaBeast’s “Why don’t you have grass?” poll, I voted that I have some sort of non-grass landscaping - but to say that it “could be grass” is a bit of a stretch. I live in the desert. _Nobody_ has grass around here. > > I’m surprised so many people would simply walk out of a restaurant if they got the wrong food. As long as the staff is nice about it and they make a reasonable effort to right the wrong (which I think they did in the hypothetical), I can forgive the mistake. Restaurants are run by human beings, after all. Besides, if you go somewhere else you’ll just be waiting even longer to eat. It happened to me a couple of months ago. I was very understanding and reminded the server that these things happen sometimes. I did insist on getting the meal I had ordered. When the manager came around to apologize, I made damned sure her (the server 's) pay wasn’t going to be docked. Both meals were comped, and my eighteen year old finally had enough to eat. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3200 "2023-04-05T00:39:24Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > Can I have my classic martini with a twist of lemon instead of olives? I am so sorry, we ran out of “gin”, you will have to make do with Bombay Sapphire. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/3201 "2023-04-05T01:34:26Z")
I’m not just a picky eater, I’m The Vegetarian (there’s always one). While I do try to be a flexible as possible in order not to give us more of a bad name, if a server plunks down a bloody steak in front of me instead of the pasta I ordered, getting it free would really not be a consolation. If I were with a group and the rest of the table already had their food, I’d ask for bread and a salad or something else fast and just eat actual food later. Of course, if I were with just my family, they’d know I was trying to put on a good face for them and they’d insist on my getting actual food even if it meant waiting. If, by chance, the wrong order was something vegetarian that I wouldn’t mind eating, then I would do that. As for the drinking, I’m definitely not a teetotaler, but I don’t routinely drink either. I used to have a glass of wine with dinner frequently, but my stomach has turned on me (so to speak) and wine gives me awful heartburn nowadays. If we go out to eat, I will often have a mixed drink before dinner - maybe once a month. And my grass is a little patch measuring about 10’ x 20’, and it’s buffalo grass, which is pretty slow-growing and thrives if it’s allowed to stay about 4" long. I use a reel push mower and supplement that with a string trimmer for the places I have longer grasses. The rest of the yard is native plants, since I want to feed birds and pollinators. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=159) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=161)